What book changed your life and why?

Answer 1

"If I live to be 100".
Insight of how older people feel lonely.

Answer 2

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, changed my life. It illustrates the difference between a natural society in the wild and a society driven by technology and capitalism. It examines the difference personal power makes to an individual, whether to wield authority, to have access to information, or to be able to do something one believes in. Bernard Marx, a character in the book, is a troubled, unhappy, cowardly man, who lucks into a taste of power and promptly abuses it, until he is discredited and outcast. Helmholtz Watson is an advertising copy writer, bright but searching for a truer outlet with which to express himself. John the Savage is a man born outside the modern society, self-educated on Shakespeare and full of uncontrollable passions that no one inside the civilized society possesses. All these characters revealed to me a little about myself and changed the course of my life permanently.

Answer 3

"Essays" of Michele de Montaigne. He was a man who lived in France from 1533 to 1592. In an age of religious intolerance, he was very laid-back. About age 40, he "retired," and every night after dinner, he would climb the tower of his mansion where he had his books, read, and then write a piece. His best known essays are "On Friendship," "On Books," "On Drunkenness," "On the Education of Children," "That Men by Different Means Come to the Same Ends," "Of a Proceeding of Some Ambassadors," "That the Hour of Parlay Is Dangerous." Maybe he was the wisest person who ever lived. His pieces are short. At the end of any one of them, and there are hundreds, you come away with an education. There are cheap paperbacks and a pocket Montaigne. He can be famously right and famously wrong. In his essay "On Friendship," he argues that women are incapable of true friendship. In his essay "On Drunkenness," he observes that drunkenness is a vice, that other vices seek to heighten the senses, but that drunkenness seeks to overthrow the senses entirely. But then he says that other vices harm the body, whereas drunkenness is harmless. Montaigne thought a lot about our lives and the way we live them. He spent years of nights writing short pieces about what he thought.

Answer 4

in all honesty I think the book that changed my life the most is probably Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone because it's largely responsible for getting me to start reading again.

Answer 5

"The Diary of Anne Frank".

It made me realize I was spoiled! And made me appreciate how lucky I am and what I have in life. I made my kids read it too when they complained too much and was old enough to comprehend. It worked well for them too. I bought the movie. The book is much much better as far as I am concerned.

Answer 6

I would say Tuesdays With Morrie. It puts the important things in life in perspective.

Answer 7

George Orwell's 1984 and Animal farm..

This book enlightened me to some of our country's Propaganda, and Countries such as China and Russia's Propaganda techniques..

Don't always trust what your government tells you.. Find out for yourself..

Answer 8

Holy Blood & Holy Grail - because it opened my eyes to the truth about religion and how false and hypocritical the church really is.

Answer 9

the bible because it taught me about jesus and exposed me to what is right and wrong